William Stallings is an American author. He has written computer science textbooks on operating systems, computer networks, computer organization, and cryptography.
Read 2nd Edition - must not be very good, because I couldn't find that Edition listed anywhere. I got the theory parts; don't know any coding (C, SQL), so I missed a lot of stuff I apparently need to know. Plus, I read it on the elliptical.
For someone learning about security/encryption for the first time, this book explains everything clearly and concisely. Easy to read and digest, I enjoyed this book and it complemented my Networking class very well.
I used this book together with some tutorial sessions during a lecture course at JCU singapore. The content and the additional material provided was very useful.
Just finished this book for a network security class. I have been in the IT security field for several years and this book is a great resource, i am sure i will use it in the future.